One of my favorite parts (no secret) of Magic, is the deckbuilding aspect of the game. Being a parent of 3 (soon 4) I have very little time to do just that, so my Magic "career" has screeched to a hault as of late. My munchkins are much too young to learn to play the game and they want to hang out with me. I spend far more time these days reading "A Pocket for Corduroy" and "Miss Nelson is Missing" than I do playing or building for any sort of game. Recently I was introduced to the game of Dominion by some of my gamer friends and instantly fell in love. The game has you BUILDING A DECK WHILE YOU PLAY! Thats right, my favorite part of Magic has been added as an intigral part of the gameplay itsself of a card game. Anyone who enjoys limited play will surely enjoy dominion. Its alot like Rotisserie Drafting while you play, and the ability to customize your deck to respond to what it lacks is a fantastically fun dynamic. I am currently working on desgining a variant for Magic that allows the same kind of freedom and that promotes deckbuilding skills almost as much or more than the playskill of the Magic player. I have 2 different ideas in the works which I plan on posting later this week or early next.Untill next time, I suggest you give Dominion a shot and...Use YOUR shoes as counters,-Shoe

About Shoe

Moderator of WOOBERG.net, the Encyclopedia of Magic Variant formats, Shoe has been playing MTG since mid to late 1994, He acquired the nickname ‘Shoe’ through a stupid joke made during a MTG game about the Chimpokomon episode of South Park. He loves MTG and gaming in general and hopes to work designing games one day. He plays mostly with his 6 year old daughter these days, but multi-player, and weird formats are his preference.

Shoe is a proud father of 4 beautiful children (ages 3, 5, 6 and 8) and currently works in IT. He has played in one PTQ and dropped after the first round to play a free draft of 9th edition…which he got 2nd place.His antics have been featured on several MTG sites such as on the WOTC website in Chris Millar’s house of cards for a stupid Sky Swallower deck HERE, when his friend who started the whole ‘Shoe’ thing made fun of his hat at a PTQ HERE, once at Star City Games, when Abe Sargent liked (and expanded on) the idea of a casual banned and restricted list - after the restricting of Ponder and Brainstorm in Vintage, the B&R most casual playgroups adhere to loosely - HERE, once when he was one of the runners up in the "Share the Magic" contest by WOTC HERE, and on multiple episodes of Commandercast, HERE.